VERSAILLES - The Morgan County Sheriff's Office said a man died from a gunshot wound on Sunday, and Versailles police arrested a woman in connection with the incident.

Officers found 29-year-old Justin Wittrock at a home on Williamson Street at around 7 p.m. Sunday, according to a press release. It's unclear whether the gunshot was self-inflicted or not. An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday morning.

Jefferson City - One person was injured in a car crash on the Missouri River Bridge on Tuesday.

The driver of a Chevrolet HHR, Samuel Greenline, said he may have fallen asleep while driving to work, causing him to crash into a Chevrolet pickup truck, according to a Jefferson City Police press release.

JEFFERSON CITY - An Osage County judge ruled in favor of Missouri Secretary of State Jay Aschroft on Tuesday in the legal battle over a ballot issue to raise the state fuel tax.

In July, Rep. Mike Moon, R-Lawrence, and activist Ron Calzone filed a lawsuit over House Bill 1460, which authorizes a tax deduction for prizes or awards won by Olympic medalists. It also included a referendum to increase the fuel tax.

MEXICO - Authorities responded to several small fires along railroad tracks running through town on Monday.

Norfolk Southern Railroad employees said one fire was caused by sparks from a rail grinder operated by maintenance workers. The crew was already working on putting the fire out when responders arrives.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska is preparing to carry out its first execution since 1997 on Tuesday in a bewildering about-face driven largely by the state's Republican governor.

Carey Dean Moore, 60, is scheduled to be executed at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln with a never-before-tried combination of drugs. Moore was condemned to die for the 1979 shooting deaths of two Omaha cab drivers, Maynard Helgeland and Reuel Van Ness Jr., and is one of the nation's longest-serving death row inmates.